Herman Melville
32) Moby Dog
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 10
Description
While pursuing the stranger who ran off with Joe's basketball, Wishbone imagines himself to be the young sailor Ishmael on Captain Ahab's whaling ship chasing the great white whale, Moby Dick, across the seven seas.
36) Moby Dick
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
39) Moby Dick
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1990]
Description
A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod led by the fanatical captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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Pub. Date
©1985
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Description
A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fanatical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel,...